Private Online OCD Therapy Treatment with OCD Specialist, Doctor Pointer
~ a UK Chartered Clinical Psychologist & Psychotherapist who himself recovered from OCD
Overcome your OCD intrusive thoughts (including images, urges, & physical sensations), obsessions, compulsions, & related distress, with the expert guidance & support of a man who experienced many different themes from an early age
via video calls (Skype, FaceTime, & Botim) - affording you the privacy, comfort, & convenience of receiving scheduled therapy sessions
Recovery isn’t the same as cure ~ this is because OCD is a predisposition to certain ways of thinking/engaging, finding resolution difficult, & tending to be very suggestible & easily immersed in our imagination - however, we can learn not to “do” OCD ~ & thereby experience life with less & less intrusive thoughts, obsessions, compulsions, & related distress ~ recovering step-by-step ~ from being locked inside our own OCD world, to the point of actually not experiencing OCD & feeling free of “it” ~ Doctor Pointer’s clients often describe this as like waking up from a bad dream
Given how uncomfortable we can be about our OCD experiences, it is so important to have a therapist with whom we feel comfortable
And therapy with Doctor Pointer will feel like meeting your kindred spirit, because people who have experienced OCD will always have a lot in common with one another, & a sense of where each other is coming from
◦Mild to Severe ◦Acute & Chronic
◦1-1 Specialist OCD Therapy
◦Therapy is tailored to your specific themes and personal psychology
◦Based in the British Isles
◦Therapy is via Private Video Calls
Intrusive Thoughts, Images, Sensations, Urges, Obsessions, Compulsions, Uncertainty, Responsibility, What If?, Overthinking, Doubt, Anxiety, Guilt, Shame, Disgust, Feeling Trapped/Stuck, Brain Lock, Rumination, Magical Thinking, Avoidance,
Intrusive Thoughts, Images, Sensations, Urges, Obsessions, Compulsions, Uncertainty, Responsibility, What If?, Overthinking, Doubt, Anxiety, Guilt, Shame, Disgust, Feeling Trapped/Stuck, Brain Lock, Rumination, Magical Thinking, Avoidance,
◦Doctor Pointer works with adults (18+)
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Recover from OCD
If OCD has taken over your life, then you will know how challenging recovery can be ~ you may be feeling distressed to the point of desperation &/or doubtful that you can ever get better ~ but with the right help, it is possible
Effective Treatment for OCD
Doctor Pointer’s clients often say that he was the first person they met whom they felt really understood them & was able to make a significant positive difference to their lives
Experience the benefits of therapy for intrusive thoughts, obsessions, rituals, compulsions, and related issues, with an expert in OCD treatment
Helping you recover from OCD, by expertly guiding you through a powerful synergy of concepts & techniques, drawn from across the most evidence-based, psychological treatments for OCD
OCD therapy will target your specific obsessions & compulsions, as well as show you what to do if your theme(s) shifts or re-emerge, so you no longer need to fear OCD
Taboo thoughts in OCD are common
You can trust in Doctor Pointer to understand and help you. Common themes include sexual images of family members and children, thoughts of “what if I’m attached to my sister/ brother/ mother/ father/ child?,” sexual and violent thoughts, such as “what if I’m a pedophile?,” “what if I like this feeling of being touched by my child?”, “what if I push them down the stairs/escalator?”, “what if I murder someone?,” “what if I have murdered someone and not remembered doing it?,” “what if I want this terribly bad thing to happen and I would secretly enjoy it?, “what if I’m evil?,” ~ & every other taboo thing you can think of. We can have what appears like random “horrible”thoughts when kissing family members, praying, doing certain task, when in certain situations, when around certain/all people, that makes us feel bad, ashamed, guilty, & anxious
Remember, OCD doubts/ stories seem more real than reality - it’s like we have flipped reality and imagination around, and that reality feels fake, and our imagination feels real
Oh no! But what if I don’t have OCD, & I’m just making excuses for being a terrible, horrible, dangerous person (to myself and/or others)?
Convincing ourselves that maybe we do not have OCD, and that really everything we fear is actually true, is a very common “trick” that our OCD mind plays on us ~ we end up convinced that these things our real, rather than stuff we have just made up (even if it feels like we did not do any of this ourselves)
What if having bad thoughts/ images/ bodily sensations means that I’m a bad person?
We can become obsessed with the inaccurate idea that having “bad” thoughts/ images/ bodily sensations is the same as being a “bad” person. So we try to avoid triggers that we see as bringing on these unwanted experiences, and yet find that we can’t help but experience them. And the more we ruminate from within this OCD story, the more convinced we become that we are bad, and that we deserve to be punished by ourselves (and possibly others, too)
Can OCD make you feel like you’re going mad?
When we keep doing the same thing over and over, and each time we feel even less unsure of ourselves and what we’ve done and seen than before, it really does feel like we’ve “lost it.” And trying to hide that from other people for fear of judgment makes us even more stressed, and our OCD worse. Doctor Pointer understands
What if my OCD makes me do it?
OCD can make us feel like we have no control over our mind, our body, and our behaviour. We can end up convinced that we will be overwhelmed by an urge to do something dangerous, terrible, and against our values. But in reality, it has no pull over us; we just imagine it has. And it is us imagining this powerful urge then makes it seem so powerful. I know it does not seem that way, but regardless of how strong the urge feels, it is just us getting immersed in our imagination, thoughts, & related muscle tension. Our OCD can not make us do anything
What if by thinking or picturing this bad thing, I make it happen?
This is a very common belief when caught up in our OCD. We fear that we will manifest it, and/or that what we are experiencing is a premonition, & therefore we must take action to prevent it ~ maybe by not doing something, going somewhere, warning people, etc., otherwise we think that if the thing we fear happens, then it will be our fault that we did not do everything we could do prevent harm
What if I'm trapped; plagued by my OCD thoughts &/or physical sensations forever, and it ruins everything now & in the future?
This is a very distressing experience; & the more trapped we feel by our thoughts and physical sensations, the more we struggle not to experience what is distressing us. Thoughts, earthworms, &/or physical sensations (blinking, swallowing, breathing, etc.) follow us around, and we think, “this is ruining my life” (my relationships, both ordinary things like watching the TV “properly,” & moments that would otherwise by special and precious to me)
What if my OCD is too severe for me to get better? / What if I’m treatment resistant and I’ll never get better?
These thoughts lead to us becoming increasingly distressed, as we imagine our lives becoming more & more unbearable. Doctor Pointer can help with this, too
Online OCD therapy for all themes
Existential OCD, Pure OCD, Race OCD, Harm OCD, Suicide OCD, Somatic OCD/ Sensorimotor OCD, Real Event OCD, Pedophile-themed OCD (POCD), Incest OCD, Zoophilia OCD (ZOCD), Hit & Run OCD, Relationship OCD, False Memory OCD, Moral OCD / Scrupulosity OCD, Contamination OCD, Checking OCD, Symmetry & Exactness OCD, Magical Thinking OCD, Just Right OCD, Sexual Orientation OCD (SO-OCD)/ Homosexual OCD (HOCD), Gender OCD, Religious OCD, & Staring OCD
This is not an exhaustive list of what Doctor Pointer can treat - even if you do not see your experience of OCD listed, Doctor Pointer can help you
For more information on themes, click on the “subtypes/themes” button
Finding your tribe is the first step to feeling less misunderstood & isolated
Doctor Pointer has been where you are now. He understands the nature of your intrusive thoughts, obsessions, compulsions, struggles, & distress, & how to guide you out of the OCD headspace, in which you have become lost, confused, trapped, & stuck
Regardless of how you might feel about your OCD experiences, nothing is too weird, strange, taboo, embarrassing, shameful, etc., to bring to therapy with Doctor Pointer. He knows where you are coming from, & wants to help you
Recover from OCD through a synergy of evidence-based psychological therapies: CBT (ERP, RF-ERP, ACT, I-CBT, CFT, MCT) +
Researchers’ understanding of OCD has changed greatly over the years, & continues to do so… therefore clinicians’ treatment of OCD needs to evolve, too
Doctor Pointer’s approach to treating OCD is both evidence-based & flexible, so as to treat your own personal experience of OCD successfully. It also takes into account researchers’ shift in their understanding of OCD, which has led to OCD no longer be viewed as an anxiety disorder (it now has its owns section within the DSM-5 ~ the latest version of how psychiatric disorders are categorised). Therefore, your tailored, specialist treatment for OCD will be a powerful synergy of CBT-based therapies ~ Exposure & Response Prevention (ERP), Rumination-Focused Exposure & Response Prevention (RF-ERP), Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), Meta-Cognitive Therapy (MCT), Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT), & Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (I-CBT/ IBT), as well as helpful concepts & practices from Eastern Philosophies (including non-denominational Buddhism & Taoism), Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy. Doctor Pointer finds that a relaxed, conversational style of therapy, that includes specific psychological exercises, works best
OCD treatment doesn’t have to be about habituation to distress
Doctor Pointer’s approach to the treatment of OCD means that instead of it being an excessively stressful ordeal, it is possible for the experience to be softened; bringing in an active choice to both trust ourselves & to relate towards ourselves with compassion
OCD heresy (but clinically accurate)
Most OCD therapists would consider the following statements about OCD and its treatment to be almost heresy. However, Doctor Pointer can show you that
we do not have to accept everything OCD tell us
we are not less able to tolerate anxiety than others (when bad things happen, we are often the first to step up and sort things out)
we do not need to habituate to anxiety if it is caused by OCD stories (although it can be helpful to habituate to feelings of disgust)
we do not always have to sit with uncertainty
there is a difference between ordinary doubt and OCD doubt
we can learn not to immerse ourselves in OCD doubts/ stories
rather than watch our thoughts, we can learn to dial down rumination
we can learn to choose to ground ourselves in reality, in the here-and now